Any Good Reading? The Changing Reception of Early Modern Travel Writing
Although the importance of the two editions of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal(l) Navigations (1589, 1598-1600) has long been recognised, there has been relatively little study of the reception of the work. This article provides an examination over the long durée of the reception of these volumes. It ch...
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ftunivderby:oai:repository.derby.ac.uk:9zy3q 2023-08-27T04:11:07+02:00 Any Good Reading? The Changing Reception of Early Modern Travel Writing Day, M. 2022 application/pdf https://repository.derby.ac.uk/download/57e25415f13c40b87b9f3033aea72af7ef2be63db3658b65f21983ff9e5c9bfb/193025/Day_Hakluyt.pdf unknown Hakluyt Society https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9zy3q/any-good-reading-the-changing-reception-of-early-modern-travel-writing ISSN:ISSN 2051-543X https://repository.derby.ac.uk/download/57e25415f13c40b87b9f3033aea72af7ef2be63db3658b65f21983ff9e5c9bfb/193025/Day_Hakluyt.pdf Day, M. 2022. Any Good Reading? The Changing Reception of Early Modern Travel Writing. Journal of the Hakluyt Society. April 2022, pp. 1-18. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Travel Writing Early Modern reception history North-West Passage colonialism antiquarianism journal-article PeerReviewed 2022 ftunivderby 2023-08-03T22:45:43Z Although the importance of the two editions of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal(l) Navigations (1589, 1598-1600) has long been recognised, there has been relatively little study of the reception of the work. This article provides an examination over the long durée of the reception of these volumes. It charts their use as providing practical information for travellers, explorers and colonists in the early modern period and as repositories of evidence for colonial claims in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While leisure reading has been an ongoing element of the reception of the works, this seems to have experienced a resurgence following the reissue of the volumes at the start of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particularly noticeable are the publication of excerpts in an effort to create specific historical narratives and the selections of texts targeted at children in this later period. Overall, the paper demonstrates the richness and breadth of responses to Hakluyt’s publications and the changing emphasis of its appeal. Article in Journal/Newspaper North West Passage UDORA - The University of Derby Online Research Archive |
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Although the importance of the two editions of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal(l) Navigations (1589, 1598-1600) has long been recognised, there has been relatively little study of the reception of the work. This article provides an examination over the long durée of the reception of these volumes. It charts their use as providing practical information for travellers, explorers and colonists in the early modern period and as repositories of evidence for colonial claims in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While leisure reading has been an ongoing element of the reception of the works, this seems to have experienced a resurgence following the reissue of the volumes at the start of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particularly noticeable are the publication of excerpts in an effort to create specific historical narratives and the selections of texts targeted at children in this later period. Overall, the paper demonstrates the richness and breadth of responses to Hakluyt’s publications and the changing emphasis of its appeal. |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9zy3q/any-good-reading-the-changing-reception-of-early-modern-travel-writing ISSN:ISSN 2051-543X https://repository.derby.ac.uk/download/57e25415f13c40b87b9f3033aea72af7ef2be63db3658b65f21983ff9e5c9bfb/193025/Day_Hakluyt.pdf Day, M. 2022. Any Good Reading? The Changing Reception of Early Modern Travel Writing. Journal of the Hakluyt Society. April 2022, pp. 1-18. |
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